Chapter 19 SynTao 18 can break out, but don't become an "upstart"

The essence of business: the desire to get rich is the belief in the bones of every Wenzhou businessman, and the desire to become rich through investment is also the birthright of everyone. Poverty is not your destiny.But while Wenzhou businessmen are getting rich, they are very wary of the trap of "upstarts". They know that only money does not make you a real rich man, and you can only become a real rich man if you become rich spiritually. Paul Coonney often jokes about winning the lottery.One day something actually happened, a one in a million chance fell upon him.At the age of 26, he won the Florida Lottery jackpot of more than $20 million.At that time, everyone thought that he could sit back and relax from now on, and he thought so too.

But 10 years later, Coonney appeared in bankruptcy court to negotiate a plan to pay off the $5 million.Where did his more than 20 million big pies that fell from the sky go?He spends his money on luxury, which means that instead of investing it, he squanders it, such as cars, motorcycles, and expensive gifts for friends and family. Therefore, Robert Kiyosaki said: "Most people don't realize that in life, it's not how much money you make, but how much money you leave behind. Get rich, then get poor again, and they get a million, but they're right back where they started."

In response to this phenomenon, the rich say that more money often does not solve the problem, in fact they may actually make the problem worse.Money often exposes the weaknesses in our human nature, but it cannot cover up our ignorance.This is why some people often get a large windfall suddenly but lose it very quickly. Of course, many people have made a fortune, even a fortune, by a moment of luck.There are millionaires, multimillionaires, and even billionaires out there.But many are now paupers and bankrupt again. There was a young man named Li Bo in Wenzhou. His father owned a small gold and silver mine.Li Bo worked very diligently at first, which made the business of the mine very prosperous.However, when the money rolled in, he was so whimsical that he built a magnificent palace-style residence and bought luxurious furniture.At that time, there was not a single bathroom in that village, but he had more than a dozen.In addition, there are 15 grand pianos arranged in various halls.Indulging in such an endless luxury life, Li Bo no longer ignored the production situation and let his mine be abandoned.Later, there was nothing left beside him except the mansion.In the end, he spent the rest of his life in two dusty rooms in the mansion.

Think professional boxers!Many of them have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in remuneration, and they have all undergone long periods of rigorous training for competitions.Their goal is to win the game, and most people's goal is just that.Therefore, after many people get rich, they live a life of luxury, and end up in poverty.This is a typical nouveau riche psychology. There is nothing wrong with an outbreak, but the thinking of an upstart is bad.In reality, many poor people look at the nouveau riche and scold them, their faces are full of contempt, but they are eager to break out, hoping that the opportunity will come as soon as possible, and they can live like the people who broke out.

The nouveau riche often do whatever they can to make money. They think that this era is an era of survival of the fittest and survival of the fittest. They laugh at the poor and not at prostitutes, as long as they can make money. Nouveau riche pay attention to style, you say that I "Fang Xinshu's small paintings are not ancient", I just want to get an old painting to hang on the wall.Poor people also need to pay attention to style. They are obsessed with golf just after getting out of poverty, and they have to raise a racehorse—of course, they can only adopt it. The horse belongs to the racecourse. In name, you have a share. I don’t know if it is a hoof or half of the butt?In short, you can go for a ride occasionally, take a bunch of photos and come back to show people the aristocratic temperament.

Nouveau riche like to spend money like water. "Anyway, what I have is money." They go to various high-consumption occasions, spend money like water, and throw a lot of money, looking as chic as they want. In the end, the nouveau riche want to make themselves look less upstarts, so they go to the Qing Dynasty to write books, try to make their image dazzling, and let the history have a long history.Moreover, they also spend money in exchange for various certificates, in order to be on an equal footing with masters and doctors. A businessman in Wenzhou hated the thinking of nouveau riche. He believed that all of the above were misunderstandings of typical nouveau riche.After all, the nouveau riche can only be the poor who really have money, their thinking is still poor, and they still uphold the inherent poor thinking that has not changed.

Money is a symbol of wealth, but if there is only money and no other wealth, it is a symbol of poverty. When there is no money, a person will feel desperately poor.Now that you have money, can you be considered rich? When you earn some money, in the standard of modern life, it seems that you have everything that some wealthy families have: you have a house, a car, and banknotes, and your savings are even enough for the next generation to spend . If you compare yourself to where you were in the past, it's a world of difference financially.What else do you need? Rockefeller was also a thinking millionaire.As early as in his youth, he received his father's enlightenment education to make money, and after he became an adult, he was unscrupulous and eventually became the world's first billionaire.However, a large amount of money brought him endless confusion.The world called him a "cruel and treacherous hypocrite", and his image was hated and loathed by Americans.He once considered himself a "poor man with nothing but money."Faced with a series of troubles caused by money, he decided to set another goal for himself.

One day, one of Rockefeller's most trusted friends said to him: "Your property is rolling up like a blizzard, and you must disperse it faster than it can be accumulated, or it will crush you and your family. sons and daughters, and the children of children," and suggested that he dispose of his property in the form of a permanent body corporate of charity for the benefit of mankind.He accepted the friend's suggestion, because he himself felt that "the real equivalent of what a person can get for money is to cultivate a taste, and spend money to produce lasting results."So he donated hundreds of millions of wealth to support education, health and scientific research, to help the poor, and to repay the society.

A tasteful Wenzhou businessman believes that there is nothing wrong with a person longing for outbreaks, because without money you cannot have real happiness, and if you earn money, you can have the basis of happiness.But is money enough?If a person has money, his behavior and psychology are a typical image of nouveau riche, then we can only say that he is still a poor person. Although he has money, his thinking has not changed at all. The thinking of the poor.Only by changing your thinking and getting rid of the nouveau riche thinking can you become a real rich man.